Composition roofing.



A. S. SPIEGEL. COMPOSITION ROOFING. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10. m3. RENEWED Inc. 6. 191m Maw Patented Apr. 30, 1918.

ALEXANDER S. SPIlEGrlEL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COMPOSITION ROOFING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 10, 1913, Serial No. 772,910. Renewed December 6, 1915. Serial No. 65,420.

"of November, 1912, #732,328, issued as a patent December 23, 1913, #1982364, I have described means for making composition roofing, in which the surface is broken up into designs varying in color, so as to give the appearance of a roof made up of separatetiles, slates, or shingles, and in the present application I am claiming the articles so made.

My present invention consists as a new article of manufacture in a sheet of asphalt roofing material having designs formed upon its surface, the designs being made distinct by colored sand or grit embedded in the asphalt material. In the use of my patented machine impression lines are made in the soft material by the skeleton cylinder in confining a surface for the application of the particular color of grit to be applied at that point, but it will be understood that the designs upon the surface are wholly made by the different colored material used and the design is not dependent upon impressions made by the sharp edges of the confining section, and it frequently happens in practice, that these impression lines are smoothed out by passing the material between rollers. This invention clearly differentiates from roofing in which an ornamental surface is prepared by applying a coating to the completed surface varying in thickness, and also by depressing certain portions of the surface to create designs. I aim to have aroofing material having an unbroken surface of uniform thickness, the designs appearing in different colors and not dependent upon de pressed portions to form the design or a showing a section of one form of roofing material embodying my improvement.

In this drawing I utilize any asphalt composition roofing made up of the usual material or layers, and I appl in any suitable manner to the surface, pre erably while hot and sticky, a sand or grit, forming a design, in the present instance of diamond shape, by applying within one diamond shaped por tion of the said surface, as at 6, red grit or sand to the stickysurface of which it adheres or is embedded, and then to the adjacent section, as at c, I may apply a blue grit or sand, and the next section (Z red rit, and the section 6 blue grit, and so on, though I do not limit myself as to the colors, and more than two colors may be used, if desired. I may leave a margin, as at 7, free from the grit or sand, which forms the underlap for the adjacent section, and which allows the patterns to be matched. Y I prefer to use a natural colored roc crushed, as this gives a color that does not fade. My invention. produces a very novel article, the crushed rock being embedded in different colors into the asphalt surface, and

the result is that the designs are immediately adjacent each other, the difierently colored material being directed to the hot as- Patented Apt", so, iaie.

phalt surface through the machine disclosed in the patent referred to, and this machine, while feeding one vcolor, protects the other surface of the sheet so that there is no intermingling of colors, and the line of demarcation between the designs is clearly discerni ble by the colorsaccentuated by theslight depressions formed by the projecting ribs of the machine in passing over the surface of the body material.

I of course do not limit myself to'the diamond shape of design, as this may vary according to the taste or fancy of the manufacturer or the customer.

I claim as my invention position roofing sheet having an asphalt coating, said coating having partly embedded therein over its surface to be exposed grit of difi'erent colors when applied and arranged to form difierent colored designs, the outer surfaces of the designs being in the same plane, the designs being. separated'by a fine line, the lines being depressed and only broad enough to separate and sharpen the outline of the designs and the sheet'being free of grit on one edge to form an underlap margin.

2. As anew article cit-manufacture, a com- 1. As a new article f manufacture, a comd )osition roofin sheet havin an as halt onlv broad enolwh to se )arate and sharien 1 c c a:

coating, said coating having partly embedthe outline of the designs. 1o ded therein over its surface to be exposed In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature grit of different colors When applied and arin presence of two Witnesses.

5 ranged to form different colored designs ALEXANDER S. SPIEGEL.

the outer surfaces of the designs being in the Witnesses: same plane, the designs being separated .by PETER O. NIELSEN, Jr.,

7 a fine line the lines being depressed and WM. THOMPSON. 

